January 11, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
A good afternoon to you, Neil Savadra. Here. Normally a
four Report would start at two. We're starting an hour
early and preempting a little bit of tech talk with
our friend Rich DeMuro, so we can get into fire coverage.
(00:21):
Amy King is with me as well, as we'll go
through five o'clock to make sure that you have all
that you need to know. Still a lot going on shifting.
The winds are kind of mellowing out, which is a
good thing. However, in some areas there have been some
gusts and pushing through as well. So in your area
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you may not be experiencing the winds. But unfortunately, in
the fire areas, not only do they make their own
weather system, there is still some wind in the forecast.
Is that not correct, Amy, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We've got wins expected to pick up this afternoon and
into this evening. We've got wing gus of about three
miles expected thirty miles prior expected in the Hollywood Hills,
and of course that's the area or just west of
that is the area that the Palisades fires really picked
up overnight. She kind of took a tear up the
hillsides and is now crusting the mountains and now threatening
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the Brentwood area.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
They're worried that it could head.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Downhill into and see now, now, when I was driving in,
I did notice that it looked like the winds were
blowing south, which is good because the fire appeared to
be headed in the northward direction.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, and the smoke I too, You and I take
similar drives on the way. In The smoke that I
saw billowing up was you know, white. So that can
sometimes be the reaction of the drops, the water drops
and the like, and it could be a good sign.
I know that the firefighters are working over time, indeed
(01:53):
to make sure that these fires are put out. A
last check for me, Amy was about a thou in
Acres addition overnight in the Palisades fire in its growth.
Places that they're concerned is, of course, with that cresting
over the top going into Encino, the San Fernando Valley,
but also into bel Air, Brentwood and the like.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and the Mandeville Canyon area. We did see.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I was watching TV this morning, and it looks like
you know, one additional house has been burned, actually not additional,
but in the Mandeville Canyon area. It was one house
and it was a big one and it went up
quick and it burned hot, and then they did a
couple of water drops onto it. But there's nothing left
and it burned within a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's insane to see the sheer force of the fire itself.
Now with the winds, the combination is an absolute one
two punch, that is. I mean, it's indescribable to watch
these plate, these towns go down. Now, just to give
a brief kind of comparison, we are used to having
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one hundred thousand acre wildfires in southern California that are
in the mountains where there's very few structures and there's
very few homes. So when we hear these numbers eaten
eaten fire, you're looking at over fourteen thousand acres. Of course,
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when we talk about the Palisades fire, you're looking over
twenty two thousand acres. Keep that in mind, now, think
of this. What would you think if someone called you
and said Manhattan burned. Manhattan is just over fourteen thousand acres,
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And that's kind of what we're experiencing because of the
density and the fact that this is an urban wildfire
that is Manhattan disappearing in less than a week, and
that when you think of it as being so densely populated.
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The and I've said this on the air talking about
these fires, is we always joke in La about how
far everything is from each other. Nothing ever seems to
be close. But when it's on fire, you start talking
about the palisade of the Palisades which are kissing the ocean,
and now you're talking about the hilly areas of the
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San Fernando Valley, and how we meet so quickly when
it comes to the acreage of these fires that none
of us and you probably no matter where you are.
And there was a couple of fires I think that
popped out in Orange County two that were snuffed out
very quickly. But wherever you are right now, we're being
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told rightly so that they're there is not a safe place,
basically in Los Angeles because the winds that come along,
as Amy said, they're going to be picking up in
some areas later today in the thirty mile range, which
is not crazy when we've been hearing because we've been
in the forty and fifty mile an hour range and
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the like in those first couple days on Tuesday and
Wednesday were hillacious.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And the good news, if there is any good news
in all of this, as you mentioned though, the winds
are blowing, but not like they were and that is
enabling there the fire helicopters and the fixed wing aircraft
to fly. And all morning long we've been seeing the
planes dropping the fire retardant, drawing those pink lines around
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to stop the fire from spreading further, and of course
the water dropping helicopters which have been just invaluable coming
in swooping in literally at the last minute and stopping
fires that have been encroaching on homes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Amy, do you know anything about Quebec one? I think
is the one that was taken down by the drone
had wing damage.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do I know an update on it?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah? Do we know whether that's back in the air.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I have not seen that yet.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I recently arrived at the radio station, so we'll check
on that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I know that, yeah, it was grounded.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
There are two of those, and those are the Super Scoopers,
which are different than the fire retardant planes. The Super
scoopers are the ones that go out into the ocean
scoop up about fifteen thousand gallons of water.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then swoop in and condump it on the fires.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And the one got hit by a drone, which interestingly,
they didn't even realize that they had hit a drone,
but it damaged the wing of the plane and it
had a baseball sized hole in it from where it
hit the drone, which of course makes it incredibly dangerous
for the pilots. And if that plane had gone down,
obviously the pilots and anybody near where the plane went
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down would have been affected. So don't fly drones. They're
pretty pictures. Actually now they're not pretty pictures. They're devastating, awful,
horrific pictures.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Is fascinating, though, I get it. It is fascinating to
see the fire from that area and all of those things.
I get it, But it's incredibly dangerous and when you
take out one of those super scoopers, you're taking out
one of the main forces of defense that we have
during these fires, and that is not good in any way,
shape or form. Special fire coverage today will be changing
(07:26):
format a little bit and breaking format from the Fork
Report Neil Savedra here with Amy King throughout until five
to make sure you get everything you need to know.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Neil Savadra with you special fire coverage to get today
as southern California continues to have wildfires in urban areas,
causing evacuations, road conditions and of course continued loss of structures.
With the Palace says fire growing about one thousand square
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a thousand acres rather overnight. The containment is at eleven
percent as of this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Which normally you would think is good news. We're getting
more lines about it, but that fire shifted direction and
took off probably away from where the lines have been drawn,
and as you mentioned, grew by about a thousand acres.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, the crazy thing. Amy. Of course, Amy King is
here with me until five as we break down the
things that you need to know about the fire and beyond.
Some of the stories that surround the fire are now
starting to come to light, including budget of the firefighters
and like we'll get into that coming up a little
bit more, but want to make sure that you have
all the information that you need the shifting is the concern.
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You have the concern now of other residential areas like
bell Air, like San Fernando Valley with Encino of it
coming up over the mountain. You have Brentwood that has
been some parts of Bretonwood, if not all, are under evacuation,
I believe at different levels because I've been watching that
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throughout the morning as well. But these fires can shift,
I mean, and even spotfires. When you look at some
of the great news that you know, the Hurst fire,
for instance, was one of the big three early on.
That's at seventy six percent containment at seven hundred and
ninety nine almost eight hundred acres there, still an active fire,
(09:33):
but significantly knocked down at that point. The Kenneth fire,
which was a concern, the Victory Boulevard west of Gilmore
Street there in West Hills area, that is at eighty
percent containment, still active with just one thousand acres and
change there, but eighty percent containment. So these were fires
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that had been of great concern. The Creek Fire has
stayed low as well, still active but at eighty percent
contained three acres or so from our last you know
look there as far as the Lydia fire that's a
one hundred percent contained. It stayed at three ninety five
(10:16):
as far as its acreage, So there is some good
news in some of these areas, but the fact that
the initial fire, the Palisades Fire, and of course the
Eaten Fire continue to grow and to continue to cause
issues with people getting from point A to point B
or being able to get back in to see any
(10:40):
of the destruction, which is I will tell you no
commentary here because I don't know all the facts of it,
but I will tell you this. I have seen some
famous people have footage of their homes, so I don't
know if certain people are being allowed back to check
things out. I know our buddy Twala has not been
(11:03):
allowed back to go and see his home yet, and
maybe we'll try and reach out to him to see
where he is. I've been given him his space because
he's in the Altadena area, his mom's in the Altadena area,
and obviously they're fighting for information themselves to find out
what's going on with their own family. And meanwhile there
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is more and more stories that come out because frustration
is real right now. Once you get past the os
stage of the houses standing areas, burning, and they are
still burning. But once you get past that initial craze
that we had for Tuesday and Wednesday, when the winds
were just unstoppable, relentless and the most intense wins I
(11:52):
ever remember. And I've lived out in the LA area
all my life. So now you have LA Fire Department
chief saying that the budget cuts hurt the department's ability
to respond to wildfires. And this is something that's going
back and forth. I know they register in the LA Times,
both did stories about whether that's a true statement or not.
(12:14):
But this, you know, firefighters here in Los Angeles as
they're working hard today and will be continually to stop
these wildfires, these urban wildfires from spreading, especially with the
you know, the return of winds that are expected. You know,
the biggest battle happening in Mandeville Canyon, the area home
(12:40):
to celebrities like Orland Schwartzenegger and like not far from
the Pacific coast. Helicopters swooping in doing all that craziness.
They're doing the thick smoke and they're like doing these
absolutely heroic you know flight patterns and drops to take
care of this. Well, there's a battle that's brewing that
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is of the political nature. You've got CalFire Operations chief
Christian Lynz said that the Palisades Fire, which is burned
near UCLA, would be their main focus today. All of
those things. You've got County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath describing the
night as unimaginable, terror and heartbreak as more are leaning
(13:24):
on the information we're getting from the National Weather Service
warning us again strong sant Ana winds can soon return,
and all of this stuff going on, while the LA
Fire Department chief says that budget cuts or hurting the
department's ability to fund what they need to do. And
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my understanding is not about paychecks, that this is about resources.
And as this continues to come to light, you're going
to hear a lot more, not just the fact that
Mayor Bass was nowhere to be fit and the attitude
that came with it of well, you know, we were
(14:09):
tweeting out on x everything they need to go. That
was cut and paste garbage that was coming out of
an office that is not mayor oil. Mayoral duties being
standing with your constituents during a horrific, horrific national or
not national, but natural disaster going on in your neighborhood.
(14:31):
There's a lot of answers that still haven't come, and
as things shift the wise and what the hell happened
with the water investigations are starting. It is disheartening to
see how much of this has been handled. I know
that watching an area I'm very familiar with over in
the Hollywood Hills. My wife and I lived below those
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Hollywood Hills the first couple of years of our marriage
in a little, tiny, little apartment they're off Gardener and
the knowing how small those streets are, and knowing that
evacuation was going to be imminent in some of these areas,
and the fact that we didn't have traffic cops at
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bare minimum showing people where to go and what to do.
It's there's a lot of fumbles here that we're going
to be looking at for some time to come. The
breakdown as it stands now, we all know that the
Palisades Fire was the one to really kick things off.
Started Tuesday at about ten thirty am in the southeast
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part of Palisades Drive. It's now up to over twenty
two one thousand acres twenty two six hundred and sixty acres.
Containment of the fire is eleven percent, but as of
this morning. But as Amy King pointed out that it's
shifting directions, so you could you make a fire line
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somewhere and a defensive line and then it shifts fatility
fatalities rather in injuries. You got five deaths, unspecified number
of significant injuries to residents. Evacuations still going on. Many
parts of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Brentwood now
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in Sino under evacuation warnings or orders. More than twelve
thousand structures remain threatened. Shelters have been set up at
the following places. Pasadena Convention Center, Westwood Recreation Center, Calvary
Community Church there in Westlake Village on Via Ruquas and
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Richie Valen's Recreation Center Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Pacoima, Stoner
Recreation Center there on Stoner Avenue in Los Angeles, pan
Pacific Recreation Center there on Beverly Boulevard not far from
the Grove there. In lasts so, more and more people
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are going to be without a home or places to stay.
Hotels in the area are are becoming filled with people
being in need of somewhere to stay. Airbnb has jumped in.
We'll tell you more about that as we come back
with more special coverage of the fired.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nilsavedra on demand
from KFI Am six.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Neilsvidra in with special coverage today of the Southern California
fires that continue to rush through the mountain areas. These urban,
very densely populated areas of Southern California. As it stands
right now, some closures you should know about. Several exits
along the four to five Freeway. You've got Getty Center
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Drive off ramps in both directions closed. Scurball Center Drive
also off ramps in both directions closed. Southbound Sunset Boulevard
off ramp closed, southbound Wilshire Boulevard off ramp closed, southbound
Santa Monica Boulevard off ramp closed, and of course southbound
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Olympic Pico Boulevard off ramp closed as well. More closures
are going to be changing throughout the day. Keep that
in mind. Quite honestly, the air is still so crappy
it's probably not good to be outside anyway, as I
see most people who are outside in masks. The smart
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idea I went out briefly. I think it was on Thursday,
Wednesday or Thursday to run an er and I was
not out long and the eyes were burning and chest
tightening and the like. I can only imagine what it's
like as you get closer to the fires. I'm probably
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within ten miles ten twelve miles of the Eton and
the Palisades fire as it's burning now, because it continues
to get closer. So even being in the eastern side
of Los Angeles, you can get some pretty heavy ash
and smoke. If you haven't checked this out, I got
to tell you. You can go to my Instagram account
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at fork Reporter. At fork Reporter my Instagram account, you
can see me holding and Amy King and I live
pretty close to each other when we were talking about this.
You'll see me holding massive ash about you know, one
by two or two by two or something like that.
And you see a couple of pictures that I took
on Wednesday morning, I think as I was leaving Tuesday
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Tuesday or Wednesday morning, as I was leaving the office
here at KFI, and so you can see the intensity
of these fires continue to cause havoc, not only the
immediate havoc of burning homes, loss of life to people
in the area and structures and all. But the secondary
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harm that is coming out through the smoke itself, the
air quality and keeping you know, away from doing activities outside.
So I would I would keep that stuff in check.
It is, you know, listening to doctor Jim Keeney on
with Handle on Friday morning and hear him talk about
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the lung and that the lung doesn't you know, when
you get things in the lung, there's no way for
it to extract them. You know, things that get into
your lungs can stay into your lungs. And I was
it's pretty bizarre thought. You know that it's you can
do lifelong damage, is what I'm saying. So keep that
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in mind. Even if you aren't in the immediate area
of the fires, it doesn't mean that there isn't issues
that you should be thinking or worried about. That's a
thing for sure, is to keep look out at your
weather and what the air quality is and if there's
going to be more wind, because that wind is going
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to pull things. Now, I have noticed that the red
flag warnings have been lifted in other areas, but you
might see something a little different called a fire weather watch,
which is similar. It just means that there might be
winds and there is low water content in the brush
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and the like, and that's really what it starts breaking
down is looking at those issues, the gusty winds, the
low relative humidity in the area, that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yes, Amy Neil, just to clarify, because the red flag
warnings did expire, but now they're back in place.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, they have put them back in place for.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Much of La and Ventura Counties. There.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
As I mentioned, they were expecting winds to be gusting
thirty to fifty miles per hour, except up in the
mountains like the Santa Susanna Mountains, parts of the Santa
Monica Mountains, and a few other areas they're expected to
gust fifty to seventy miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Swam.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Again, those red flag warnings are going to be in
effect through Wednesday. The strongest winds are expected overnight tonight
into tomorrow morning. They'll die down a bit and then
pick up again Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I was surprised to see not the wind events still,
but I was surprised to see that they were focusing
in areas. There were different San Bernardino, San Burdeu, Riverside,
Irvine and the like. I saw still in the red
flag warnings, but you know, everything else I had seen
under this obvious I guess lower fire weather watch.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So yeah, and you were correct.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It's just that this is a new development that they've
reinstated those as of one in fifteen. This afternoon they
reinstated the red flag warnings and they're also in effect
as you men for the ie the San Bernardino County Mountains,
San Gorgonio Pass, Sanana Mountains and in the Orange County.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So they're looking at them whipping up again. And you
say on the high end there seventy miles an hour
on the gusts.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, possible, and that's mainly in the mountain areas, which
of course.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Is problematic, problematic, okay with other fires. The Eating Fire
started at six eighteen pm on Tuesday near Altadena Midwick
Drive in Altadena, near Eaton Canyon. Eaton Canyon is known
as a great hiking area. I believe it's got a
waterfall up there as well, and just one of those
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beautiful places that we have here in southern California. Size
currently is at fourteen thousand and change in acres containment
is fifteen percent as of this morning. Fatalities and injuries,
this is where we're seeing the biggest hit, with eight
deaths I believe, and several injuries just from that location alone.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And there are still several people missing when you look
at the combined totals, I believe I need to double
check this, but I believe that we're up to thirteen
now who have died in the in both fires, in
both of the biggest fires, and then there's more than
ten people who are still reported as missing unaccounted for.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's unfortunate and it's sad to think, but I think
that this is one of those circumstances where we're going
to be seeing that number rise as well. You know
some of the homes you know, under these circumstances, the
information amy, it's been fascinating to see, like whether homes
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are destroyed or not. If you remember, early on James Woods,
actor James Woods was posting from his Palace Aades home
as he saw the fire coming close and they decided
to evacuate, and then he talked about having everything lost. Well,
I saw a report sort yesterday that it turns out
his house wasn't totaled. So I think this is one
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of those circumstances if you can't get in there to see,
and even some of the aerial footage that we have
is limited, that we're not going to know truly how
much loss there is. And until later on.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
There were several people there's a line of cars trying
to get into the Palisades area to get in and
see if their homes are destroyed. Some people say they
know their homes are gone because they've seen the aerial
footage and can say that that's where my home used
to be, but they still want to go in. They're
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on very very few occasions letting people go in, like
to get medication and that kind of thing. But for
the most part, people are staying out, but they're waiting
in line in their cars for hours and hours just
for the opportunity to see if they can go back
in and see if there's anything left.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
That has to be mad maddening when you're the anxiety
that goes with all of this, in addition to the
anxiety that's coming with the people that are in these
areas the surrounding areas. I don't has it been more
than two was it three of those false evacuation notices
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that went out or was it just two?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It was too mass evacuation notices. But yesterday while we
were talking about that on the air on the Gary
and Shannon Show, Keana kept getting Producer Kiana just kept
getting the alerts. So I think maybe there were a
few sporadics. But the one was county wide on was
that Thursday evening, and that one was actually for the
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Kenneth fire which broke out Thursday night. That was supposed
to only go to that area. Instead it went to
everybody in the county. And then on Friday morning at
four am, another one started going out and it was
kind of spotty. It hit Silver Lake, it hit a
couple of areas in the valley. It would didn't go
out county wide. So they said that they've been looking
into that that it wasn't a human caused thing. A
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person wasn't pushing a button putting out an incorrect alert,
but it was something in the system. We haven't had
any more of those mass alerts, so hopefully they've got
that fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I don't know if that makes it better that it
wasn't like somebody with a with fat fingers pushing a
button to me, it's like AnyWho. All right, let's get
the latest news with Amy. Neil Savedra and Amy King
is with me as we do special fire coverage today
until five o'clock, just giving you what you need to
know some of the surrounding stories as well as the details,
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the numbers, the closures, all of that. So go nowhere
you've been listening to the Fork Report, you can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
five pm on Saturday and anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody, Neil Savedra here with you today
until five doing special fire coverage along with Amy King.
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So much going on in southern California with road closures,
the fires themselves shifting. As you heard Amy in last
newscast tell you the red flag warnings were lifted and
now they are back in many areas, So please be
aware of the shifting winds that are going to be
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going on. I had never seen anything like we experienced
on Tuesday and Wednesday. When those winds came in, I
thought it was quite interesting. And Amy, you guys been
doing news forever when you heard that we what are
you saying no, I'm saying that you are an expert
on these things, and I'm looking for that expertise, my friend.
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So the wind event warnings were getting that. They were
saying deadly wind events, and they did mention fires, but
there were concerns about just the winds themselves. Do you
remember that ever? In all, I don't either.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And I think those first ones came in and I
was looking at the alert saying potentially deadly wind. I mean,
that was just a weird wording, and I thought, oh,
is this like polar vortex is where they're creating new.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Vernacular and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But I think this one, obviously, someone put up the
quote red flag and said this one's different, It's going
to be bad.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And I noticed on the eastern side of Los Angeles,
driving through town and Los Fheelis and the like, I
saw massive trees that had gone through the roofs of
some of the apartment buildings. I saw concrete light poles down.
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And again I took pictures of these things and put
them up on Instagram. If you are so interested in
seeing some of these things, it just is mind boggling,
you can find them on my Instagram at Fork at
Fork Reporter on Instagram. There some of the size of
the ash that was in my front yard, some of
the kind of eerie but interesting stuff that I saw
(30:14):
Ali who is the host of a podcast called Ologies,
which is all about experts in different fields and studies.
Maybe they're in the Hollywood Hills, I'm not sure, but
she had an ash that was probably two by two
or something that she had picked up, and it was
a page from a book talking about ashes, Don dun Dumb,
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and it was great. You could still read it, and
I think she even names I think she even names
the book. There was enough there to know or she
had read it or something. So I'm looking at all
these ashes that have fallen on the ground in my
neighborhood to see if there is anything, you know, because
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this is if they're not, you know, trees or something,
this is part of someone's life that is now ash
that has floated ten twelve miles away, and that goes
to show you when the winds were kicking. That's one thing,
but there's still stuff coming down in surrounding areas, which
is why it's probably best to stick around home and
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to deal with that because your you know, your lungs,
your filters there are going to be inhaling all the
garbage that's in the air. And for me, it irritates
me pretty quickly. But just because you can handle it
better than someone else doesn't mean that it's not doing damage.
So masking up is probably a good thing, but making
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sure that it's the proper type of mask and so
on and so on. So the Hurst fire is about
eighty percent contained or so right now, which is good news.
Started on Tuesday as well, later in the evening around
ten thirds dirty ish in the PM near Diamond Road
in Silmar. That one hit just under eight hundred acres.
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No injuries reported there. It's kind of where it's right
where the five and the fourteen meet and two ten
meet there in Silmar. Strong winds at the time, of course,
but that is one that birthed the Richie Valens Recreation
Center as evacuation. As an evacuation center, keep in mind
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you know the things that you should be getting if
you're concerned or if you get a warning, And keep
in mind a warning for evacuation can be followed by
a level three get the hell out very quickly. So
what you should have in your go bag is a
little bit of extra clothing. Of course, your prescription medications
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that's going to be a big one. Bottled water if
you have it, Pillows and blankets, any of your hygiene
supplies in important documents, diapers, formula, and toys for children.
Little things that can keep them busy or make them
feel safe are going to be helpful as well. You know,
my son, who's eight, is very curious and he's asking questions.
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He knows that Daddy he's been working a lot and
getting a lot of phone calls at the house, and
that mommy and daddy both have been getting a lot
of texts from neighbors and friends and family checking in
on us from as far away as Italy, friends going
are you okay? Is this in your area? I've sent out.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
One of the apps that has become famous during all
of this craziness and really taken it on its own
is Watch Duty. Have you jumped on that, Amy.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, it's And I
put the app on my phone so I can check
it all the time.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It is. It's an amazing app. They're doing a great
job and this was burst out of someone I think
who was involved in a fire and couldn't get information
quickly enough and put this app together, and it's kind
of a one stop shop for seeing where everything is.
But you can also do it in place where your
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home is. So what I was doing is taking screenshots
of that and sending them to family and friends that
were concerned and saying this is where we are, this
is where the fires are, so you can see the
proximity that we were fine. But this Watch Duty app
has been very important to information gathering and taking in
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the information, and I think it's a good one, especially
if you live near the areas or concerned. It has
all the evacuation codes when certain areas are to be evacuated,
has the shelters, It has medical locations as well well
as those evacuation centers. It will also let you know
when there is red flag warnings or any sort of
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weather concerns going with this and the containment of the
fires and the like, which ended up being quite handy
when I'm not near the you know, news, not near
the station and stuff like that. It's been very handy
to have that at the ready in my hand. So
keep that in mind. There are large animal areas. Of course,
(35:18):
when it comes to evacuation, many of the areas are
zoned to have larger animals, so if you do keep
that in mind. Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Riverside Drive, not
far from the station here in Burbank, Castaic Animals Center
on Charlie Canyon Road in Castaic, Industry Hills Expo Center
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there on Temple Avenue in the City of Industry. Pomona
Fairplex on McKinley Avenue in Pomona. So if you have
you know, large animals in need of shelter, those are
some ideas for you as well. All right, we have
started the program earlier or we're not doing the main
Fork Report to show as we will step out. There
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are some food elements though, and some tie ins of
people that are helping firefighters those that have been displaced
as well that we will be getting into later in
the program. But stick around. Amy King is with me
as we continue live fire coverage for you until five
o'clock here on KFI, So go know where you're
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on demand
from KFI AM six forty
Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
A good afternoon to you, Neil Savadra. Here. Normally a
four Report would start at two. We're starting an hour
early and preempting a little bit of tech talk with
our friend Rich DeMuro, so we can get into fire coverage.
(00:21):
Amy King is with me as well, as we'll go
through five o'clock to make sure that you have all
that you need to know. Still a lot going on shifting.
The winds are kind of mellowing out, which is a
good thing. However, in some areas there have been some
gusts and pushing through as well. So in your area
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you may not be experiencing the winds. But unfortunately, in
the fire areas, not only do they make their own
weather system, there is still some wind in the forecast.
Is that not correct, Amy, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We've got wins expected to pick up this afternoon and
into this evening. We've got wing gus of about three
miles expected thirty miles prior expected in the Hollywood Hills,
and of course that's the area or just west of
that is the area that the Palisades fires really picked
up overnight. She kind of took a tear up the
hillsides and is now crusting the mountains and now threatening
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the Brentwood area.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
They're worried that it could head.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Downhill into and see now, now, when I was driving in,
I did notice that it looked like the winds were
blowing south, which is good because the fire appeared to
be headed in the northward direction.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, and the smoke I too, You and I take
similar drives on the way. In The smoke that I
saw billowing up was you know, white. So that can
sometimes be the reaction of the drops, the water drops
and the like, and it could be a good sign.
I know that the firefighters are working over time, indeed
(01:53):
to make sure that these fires are put out. A
last check for me, Amy was about a thou in
Acres addition overnight in the Palisades fire in its growth.
Places that they're concerned is, of course, with that cresting
over the top going into Encino, the San Fernando Valley,
but also into bel Air, Brentwood and the like.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and the Mandeville Canyon area. We did see.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I was watching TV this morning, and it looks like
you know, one additional house has been burned, actually not additional,
but in the Mandeville Canyon area. It was one house
and it was a big one and it went up
quick and it burned hot, and then they did a
couple of water drops onto it. But there's nothing left
and it burned within a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's insane to see the sheer force of the fire itself.
Now with the winds, the combination is an absolute one
two punch, that is. I mean, it's indescribable to watch
these plate, these towns go down. Now, just to give
a brief kind of comparison, we are used to having
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one hundred thousand acre wildfires in southern California that are
in the mountains where there's very few structures and there's
very few homes. So when we hear these numbers eaten
eaten fire, you're looking at over fourteen thousand acres. Of course,
(03:27):
when we talk about the Palisades fire, you're looking over
twenty two thousand acres. Keep that in mind, now, think
of this. What would you think if someone called you
and said Manhattan burned. Manhattan is just over fourteen thousand acres,
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And that's kind of what we're experiencing because of the
density and the fact that this is an urban wildfire
that is Manhattan disappearing in less than a week, and
that when you think of it as being so densely populated.
(04:10):
The and I've said this on the air talking about
these fires, is we always joke in La about how
far everything is from each other. Nothing ever seems to
be close. But when it's on fire, you start talking
about the palisade of the Palisades which are kissing the ocean,
and now you're talking about the hilly areas of the
(04:34):
San Fernando Valley, and how we meet so quickly when
it comes to the acreage of these fires that none
of us and you probably no matter where you are.
And there was a couple of fires I think that
popped out in Orange County two that were snuffed out
very quickly. But wherever you are right now, we're being
(04:58):
told rightly so that they're there is not a safe place,
basically in Los Angeles because the winds that come along,
as Amy said, they're going to be picking up in
some areas later today in the thirty mile range, which
is not crazy when we've been hearing because we've been
in the forty and fifty mile an hour range and
(05:21):
the like in those first couple days on Tuesday and
Wednesday were hillacious.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And the good news, if there is any good news
in all of this, as you mentioned though, the winds
are blowing, but not like they were and that is
enabling there the fire helicopters and the fixed wing aircraft
to fly. And all morning long we've been seeing the
planes dropping the fire retardant, drawing those pink lines around
(05:49):
to stop the fire from spreading further, and of course
the water dropping helicopters which have been just invaluable coming
in swooping in literally at the last minute and stopping
fires that have been encroaching on homes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Amy, do you know anything about Quebec one? I think
is the one that was taken down by the drone
had wing damage.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do I know an update on it?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah? Do we know whether that's back in the air.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I have not seen that yet.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I recently arrived at the radio station, so we'll check
on that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I know that, yeah, it was grounded.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
There are two of those, and those are the Super Scoopers,
which are different than the fire retardant planes. The Super
scoopers are the ones that go out into the ocean
scoop up about fifteen thousand gallons of water.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then swoop in and condump it on the fires.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And the one got hit by a drone, which interestingly,
they didn't even realize that they had hit a drone,
but it damaged the wing of the plane and it
had a baseball sized hole in it from where it
hit the drone, which of course makes it incredibly dangerous
for the pilots. And if that plane had gone down,
obviously the pilots and anybody near where the plane went
(06:55):
down would have been affected. So don't fly drones. They're
pretty pictures. Actually now they're not pretty pictures. They're devastating, awful,
horrific pictures.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Is fascinating, though, I get it. It is fascinating to
see the fire from that area and all of those things.
I get it, But it's incredibly dangerous and when you
take out one of those super scoopers, you're taking out
one of the main forces of defense that we have
during these fires, and that is not good in any way,
shape or form. Special fire coverage today will be changing
(07:26):
format a little bit and breaking format from the Fork
Report Neil Savedra here with Amy King throughout until five
to make sure you get everything you need to know.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Neil Savadra with you special fire coverage to get today
as southern California continues to have wildfires in urban areas,
causing evacuations, road conditions and of course continued loss of structures.
With the Palace says fire growing about one thousand square
(08:03):
a thousand acres rather overnight. The containment is at eleven
percent as of this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Which normally you would think is good news. We're getting
more lines about it, but that fire shifted direction and
took off probably away from where the lines have been drawn,
and as you mentioned, grew by about a thousand acres.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, the crazy thing. Amy. Of course, Amy King is
here with me until five as we break down the
things that you need to know about the fire and beyond.
Some of the stories that surround the fire are now
starting to come to light, including budget of the firefighters
and like we'll get into that coming up a little
bit more, but want to make sure that you have
all the information that you need the shifting is the concern.
(08:50):
You have the concern now of other residential areas like
bell Air, like San Fernando Valley with Encino of it
coming up over the mountain. You have Brentwood that has
been some parts of Bretonwood, if not all, are under evacuation,
I believe at different levels because I've been watching that
(09:12):
throughout the morning as well. But these fires can shift,
I mean, and even spotfires. When you look at some
of the great news that you know, the Hurst fire,
for instance, was one of the big three early on.
That's at seventy six percent containment at seven hundred and
ninety nine almost eight hundred acres there, still an active fire,
(09:33):
but significantly knocked down at that point. The Kenneth fire,
which was a concern, the Victory Boulevard west of Gilmore
Street there in West Hills area, that is at eighty
percent containment, still active with just one thousand acres and
change there, but eighty percent containment. So these were fires
(09:56):
that had been of great concern. The Creek Fire has
stayed low as well, still active but at eighty percent
contained three acres or so from our last you know
look there as far as the Lydia fire that's a
one hundred percent contained. It stayed at three ninety five
(10:16):
as far as its acreage, So there is some good
news in some of these areas, but the fact that
the initial fire, the Palisades Fire, and of course the
Eaten Fire continue to grow and to continue to cause
issues with people getting from point A to point B
or being able to get back in to see any
(10:40):
of the destruction, which is I will tell you no
commentary here because I don't know all the facts of it,
but I will tell you this. I have seen some
famous people have footage of their homes, so I don't
know if certain people are being allowed back to check
things out. I know our buddy Twala has not been
(11:03):
allowed back to go and see his home yet, and
maybe we'll try and reach out to him to see
where he is. I've been given him his space because
he's in the Altadena area, his mom's in the Altadena area,
and obviously they're fighting for information themselves to find out
what's going on with their own family. And meanwhile there
(11:26):
is more and more stories that come out because frustration
is real right now. Once you get past the os
stage of the houses standing areas, burning, and they are
still burning. But once you get past that initial craze
that we had for Tuesday and Wednesday, when the winds
were just unstoppable, relentless and the most intense wins I
(11:52):
ever remember. And I've lived out in the LA area
all my life. So now you have LA Fire Department
chief saying that the budget cuts hurt the department's ability
to respond to wildfires. And this is something that's going
back and forth. I know they register in the LA Times,
both did stories about whether that's a true statement or not.
(12:14):
But this, you know, firefighters here in Los Angeles as
they're working hard today and will be continually to stop
these wildfires, these urban wildfires from spreading, especially with the
you know, the return of winds that are expected. You know,
the biggest battle happening in Mandeville Canyon, the area home
(12:40):
to celebrities like Orland Schwartzenegger and like not far from
the Pacific coast. Helicopters swooping in doing all that craziness.
They're doing the thick smoke and they're like doing these
absolutely heroic you know flight patterns and drops to take
care of this. Well, there's a battle that's brewing that
(13:01):
is of the political nature. You've got CalFire Operations chief
Christian Lynz said that the Palisades Fire, which is burned
near UCLA, would be their main focus today. All of
those things. You've got County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath describing the
night as unimaginable, terror and heartbreak as more are leaning
(13:24):
on the information we're getting from the National Weather Service
warning us again strong sant Ana winds can soon return,
and all of this stuff going on, while the LA
Fire Department chief says that budget cuts or hurting the
department's ability to fund what they need to do. And
(13:46):
my understanding is not about paychecks, that this is about resources.
And as this continues to come to light, you're going
to hear a lot more, not just the fact that
Mayor Bass was nowhere to be fit and the attitude
that came with it of well, you know, we were
(14:09):
tweeting out on x everything they need to go. That
was cut and paste garbage that was coming out of
an office that is not mayor oil. Mayoral duties being
standing with your constituents during a horrific, horrific national or
not national, but natural disaster going on in your neighborhood.
(14:31):
There's a lot of answers that still haven't come, and
as things shift the wise and what the hell happened
with the water investigations are starting. It is disheartening to
see how much of this has been handled. I know
that watching an area I'm very familiar with over in
the Hollywood Hills. My wife and I lived below those
(14:55):
Hollywood Hills the first couple of years of our marriage
in a little, tiny, little apartment they're off Gardener and
the knowing how small those streets are, and knowing that
evacuation was going to be imminent in some of these areas,
and the fact that we didn't have traffic cops at
(15:16):
bare minimum showing people where to go and what to do.
It's there's a lot of fumbles here that we're going
to be looking at for some time to come. The
breakdown as it stands now, we all know that the
Palisades Fire was the one to really kick things off.
Started Tuesday at about ten thirty am in the southeast
(15:38):
part of Palisades Drive. It's now up to over twenty
two one thousand acres twenty two six hundred and sixty acres.
Containment of the fire is eleven percent, but as of
this morning. But as Amy King pointed out that it's
shifting directions, so you could you make a fire line
(16:00):
somewhere and a defensive line and then it shifts fatility
fatalities rather in injuries. You got five deaths, unspecified number
of significant injuries to residents. Evacuations still going on. Many
parts of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Brentwood now
(16:20):
in Sino under evacuation warnings or orders. More than twelve
thousand structures remain threatened. Shelters have been set up at
the following places. Pasadena Convention Center, Westwood Recreation Center, Calvary
Community Church there in Westlake Village on Via Ruquas and
(16:43):
Richie Valen's Recreation Center Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Pacoima, Stoner
Recreation Center there on Stoner Avenue in Los Angeles, pan
Pacific Recreation Center there on Beverly Boulevard not far from
the Grove there. In lasts so, more and more people
(17:04):
are going to be without a home or places to stay.
Hotels in the area are are becoming filled with people
being in need of somewhere to stay. Airbnb has jumped in.
We'll tell you more about that as we come back
with more special coverage of the fired.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nilsavedra on demand
from KFI Am six.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Neilsvidra in with special coverage today of the Southern California
fires that continue to rush through the mountain areas. These urban,
very densely populated areas of Southern California. As it stands
right now, some closures you should know about. Several exits
along the four to five Freeway. You've got Getty Center
(17:53):
Drive off ramps in both directions closed. Scurball Center Drive
also off ramps in both directions closed. Southbound Sunset Boulevard
off ramp closed, southbound Wilshire Boulevard off ramp closed, southbound
Santa Monica Boulevard off ramp closed, and of course southbound
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Olympic Pico Boulevard off ramp closed as well. More closures
are going to be changing throughout the day. Keep that
in mind. Quite honestly, the air is still so crappy
it's probably not good to be outside anyway, as I
see most people who are outside in masks. The smart
(18:36):
idea I went out briefly. I think it was on Thursday,
Wednesday or Thursday to run an er and I was
not out long and the eyes were burning and chest
tightening and the like. I can only imagine what it's
like as you get closer to the fires. I'm probably
(18:57):
within ten miles ten twelve miles of the Eton and
the Palisades fire as it's burning now, because it continues
to get closer. So even being in the eastern side
of Los Angeles, you can get some pretty heavy ash
and smoke. If you haven't checked this out, I got
to tell you. You can go to my Instagram account
(19:20):
at fork Reporter. At fork Reporter my Instagram account, you
can see me holding and Amy King and I live
pretty close to each other when we were talking about this.
You'll see me holding massive ash about you know, one
by two or two by two or something like that.
And you see a couple of pictures that I took
on Wednesday morning, I think as I was leaving Tuesday
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Tuesday or Wednesday morning, as I was leaving the office
here at KFI, and so you can see the intensity
of these fires continue to cause havoc, not only the
immediate havoc of burning homes, loss of life to people
in the area and structures and all. But the secondary
(20:06):
harm that is coming out through the smoke itself, the
air quality and keeping you know, away from doing activities outside.
So I would I would keep that stuff in check.
It is, you know, listening to doctor Jim Keeney on
with Handle on Friday morning and hear him talk about
(20:27):
the lung and that the lung doesn't you know, when
you get things in the lung, there's no way for
it to extract them. You know, things that get into
your lungs can stay into your lungs. And I was
it's pretty bizarre thought. You know that it's you can
do lifelong damage, is what I'm saying. So keep that
(20:49):
in mind. Even if you aren't in the immediate area
of the fires, it doesn't mean that there isn't issues
that you should be thinking or worried about. That's a
thing for sure, is to keep look out at your
weather and what the air quality is and if there's
going to be more wind, because that wind is going
(21:12):
to pull things. Now, I have noticed that the red
flag warnings have been lifted in other areas, but you
might see something a little different called a fire weather watch,
which is similar. It just means that there might be
winds and there is low water content in the brush
(21:37):
and the like, and that's really what it starts breaking
down is looking at those issues, the gusty winds, the
low relative humidity in the area, that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yes, Amy Neil, just to clarify, because the red flag
warnings did expire, but now they're back in place.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, they have put them back in place for.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Much of La and Ventura Counties. There.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
As I mentioned, they were expecting winds to be gusting
thirty to fifty miles per hour, except up in the
mountains like the Santa Susanna Mountains, parts of the Santa
Monica Mountains, and a few other areas they're expected to
gust fifty to seventy miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Swam.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Again, those red flag warnings are going to be in
effect through Wednesday. The strongest winds are expected overnight tonight
into tomorrow morning. They'll die down a bit and then
pick up again Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I was surprised to see not the wind events still,
but I was surprised to see that they were focusing
in areas. There were different San Bernardino, San Burdeu, Riverside,
Irvine and the like. I saw still in the red
flag warnings, but you know, everything else I had seen
under this obvious I guess lower fire weather watch.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So yeah, and you were correct.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It's just that this is a new development that they've
reinstated those as of one in fifteen. This afternoon they
reinstated the red flag warnings and they're also in effect
as you men for the ie the San Bernardino County Mountains,
San Gorgonio Pass, Sanana Mountains and in the Orange County.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So they're looking at them whipping up again. And you
say on the high end there seventy miles an hour
on the gusts.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, possible, and that's mainly in the mountain areas, which
of course.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Is problematic, problematic, okay with other fires. The Eating Fire
started at six eighteen pm on Tuesday near Altadena Midwick
Drive in Altadena, near Eaton Canyon. Eaton Canyon is known
as a great hiking area. I believe it's got a
waterfall up there as well, and just one of those
(23:39):
beautiful places that we have here in southern California. Size
currently is at fourteen thousand and change in acres containment
is fifteen percent as of this morning. Fatalities and injuries,
this is where we're seeing the biggest hit, with eight
deaths I believe, and several injuries just from that location alone.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And there are still several people missing when you look
at the combined totals, I believe I need to double
check this, but I believe that we're up to thirteen
now who have died in the in both fires, in
both of the biggest fires, and then there's more than
ten people who are still reported as missing unaccounted for.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's unfortunate and it's sad to think, but I think
that this is one of those circumstances where we're going
to be seeing that number rise as well. You know
some of the homes you know, under these circumstances, the
information amy, it's been fascinating to see, like whether homes
(24:43):
are destroyed or not. If you remember, early on James Woods,
actor James Woods was posting from his Palace Aades home
as he saw the fire coming close and they decided
to evacuate, and then he talked about having everything lost. Well,
I saw a report sort yesterday that it turns out
his house wasn't totaled. So I think this is one
(25:08):
of those circumstances if you can't get in there to see,
and even some of the aerial footage that we have
is limited, that we're not going to know truly how
much loss there is. And until later on.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
There were several people there's a line of cars trying
to get into the Palisades area to get in and
see if their homes are destroyed. Some people say they
know their homes are gone because they've seen the aerial
footage and can say that that's where my home used
to be, but they still want to go in. They're
(25:43):
on very very few occasions letting people go in, like
to get medication and that kind of thing. But for
the most part, people are staying out, but they're waiting
in line in their cars for hours and hours just
for the opportunity to see if they can go back
in and see if there's anything left.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
That has to be mad maddening when you're the anxiety
that goes with all of this, in addition to the
anxiety that's coming with the people that are in these
areas the surrounding areas. I don't has it been more
than two was it three of those false evacuation notices
(26:19):
that went out or was it just two?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It was too mass evacuation notices. But yesterday while we
were talking about that on the air on the Gary
and Shannon Show, Keana kept getting Producer Kiana just kept
getting the alerts. So I think maybe there were a
few sporadics. But the one was county wide on was
that Thursday evening, and that one was actually for the
(26:45):
Kenneth fire which broke out Thursday night. That was supposed
to only go to that area. Instead it went to
everybody in the county. And then on Friday morning at
four am, another one started going out and it was
kind of spotty. It hit Silver Lake, it hit a
couple of areas in the valley. It would didn't go
out county wide. So they said that they've been looking
into that that it wasn't a human caused thing. A
(27:07):
person wasn't pushing a button putting out an incorrect alert,
but it was something in the system. We haven't had
any more of those mass alerts, so hopefully they've got
that fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I don't know if that makes it better that it
wasn't like somebody with a with fat fingers pushing a
button to me, it's like AnyWho. All right, let's get
the latest news with Amy. Neil Savedra and Amy King
is with me as we do special fire coverage today
until five o'clock, just giving you what you need to
know some of the surrounding stories as well as the details,
(27:38):
the numbers, the closures, all of that. So go nowhere
you've been listening to the Fork Report, you can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
five pm on Saturday and anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody, Neil Savedra here with you today
until five doing special fire coverage along with Amy King.
(28:01):
So much going on in southern California with road closures,
the fires themselves shifting. As you heard Amy in last
newscast tell you the red flag warnings were lifted and
now they are back in many areas, So please be
aware of the shifting winds that are going to be
(28:21):
going on. I had never seen anything like we experienced
on Tuesday and Wednesday. When those winds came in, I
thought it was quite interesting. And Amy, you guys been
doing news forever when you heard that we what are
you saying no, I'm saying that you are an expert
on these things, and I'm looking for that expertise, my friend.
(28:44):
So the wind event warnings were getting that. They were
saying deadly wind events, and they did mention fires, but
there were concerns about just the winds themselves. Do you
remember that ever? In all, I don't either.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And I think those first ones came in and I
was looking at the alert saying potentially deadly wind. I mean,
that was just a weird wording, and I thought, oh,
is this like polar vortex is where they're creating new.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Vernacular and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But I think this one, obviously, someone put up the
quote red flag and said this one's different, It's going
to be bad.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And I noticed on the eastern side of Los Angeles,
driving through town and Los Fheelis and the like, I
saw massive trees that had gone through the roofs of
some of the apartment buildings. I saw concrete light poles down.
(29:48):
And again I took pictures of these things and put
them up on Instagram. If you are so interested in
seeing some of these things, it just is mind boggling,
you can find them on my Instagram at Fork at
Fork Reporter on Instagram. There some of the size of
the ash that was in my front yard, some of
the kind of eerie but interesting stuff that I saw
(30:14):
Ali who is the host of a podcast called Ologies,
which is all about experts in different fields and studies.
Maybe they're in the Hollywood Hills, I'm not sure, but
she had an ash that was probably two by two
or something that she had picked up, and it was
a page from a book talking about ashes, Don dun Dumb,
(30:41):
and it was great. You could still read it, and
I think she even names I think she even names
the book. There was enough there to know or she
had read it or something. So I'm looking at all
these ashes that have fallen on the ground in my
neighborhood to see if there is anything, you know, because
(31:02):
this is if they're not, you know, trees or something,
this is part of someone's life that is now ash
that has floated ten twelve miles away, and that goes
to show you when the winds were kicking. That's one thing,
but there's still stuff coming down in surrounding areas, which
is why it's probably best to stick around home and
(31:24):
to deal with that because your you know, your lungs,
your filters there are going to be inhaling all the
garbage that's in the air. And for me, it irritates
me pretty quickly. But just because you can handle it
better than someone else doesn't mean that it's not doing damage.
So masking up is probably a good thing, but making
(31:44):
sure that it's the proper type of mask and so
on and so on. So the Hurst fire is about
eighty percent contained or so right now, which is good news.
Started on Tuesday as well, later in the evening around
ten thirds dirty ish in the PM near Diamond Road
in Silmar. That one hit just under eight hundred acres.
(32:08):
No injuries reported there. It's kind of where it's right
where the five and the fourteen meet and two ten
meet there in Silmar. Strong winds at the time, of course,
but that is one that birthed the Richie Valens Recreation
Center as evacuation. As an evacuation center, keep in mind
(32:31):
you know the things that you should be getting if
you're concerned or if you get a warning, And keep
in mind a warning for evacuation can be followed by
a level three get the hell out very quickly. So
what you should have in your go bag is a
little bit of extra clothing. Of course, your prescription medications
(32:53):
that's going to be a big one. Bottled water if
you have it, Pillows and blankets, any of your hygiene
supplies in important documents, diapers, formula, and toys for children.
Little things that can keep them busy or make them
feel safe are going to be helpful as well. You know,
my son, who's eight, is very curious and he's asking questions.
(33:15):
He knows that Daddy he's been working a lot and
getting a lot of phone calls at the house, and
that mommy and daddy both have been getting a lot
of texts from neighbors and friends and family checking in
on us from as far away as Italy, friends going
are you okay? Is this in your area? I've sent out.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
One of the apps that has become famous during all
of this craziness and really taken it on its own
is Watch Duty. Have you jumped on that, Amy.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, it's And I
put the app on my phone so I can check
it all the time.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It is. It's an amazing app. They're doing a great
job and this was burst out of someone I think
who was involved in a fire and couldn't get information
quickly enough and put this app together, and it's kind
of a one stop shop for seeing where everything is.
But you can also do it in place where your
(34:11):
home is. So what I was doing is taking screenshots
of that and sending them to family and friends that
were concerned and saying this is where we are, this
is where the fires are, so you can see the
proximity that we were fine. But this Watch Duty app
has been very important to information gathering and taking in
(34:33):
the information, and I think it's a good one, especially
if you live near the areas or concerned. It has
all the evacuation codes when certain areas are to be evacuated,
has the shelters, It has medical locations as well well
as those evacuation centers. It will also let you know
when there is red flag warnings or any sort of
(34:55):
weather concerns going with this and the containment of the
fires and the like, which ended up being quite handy
when I'm not near the you know, news, not near
the station and stuff like that. It's been very handy
to have that at the ready in my hand. So
keep that in mind. There are large animal areas. Of course,
(35:18):
when it comes to evacuation, many of the areas are
zoned to have larger animals, so if you do keep
that in mind. Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Riverside Drive, not
far from the station here in Burbank, Castaic Animals Center
on Charlie Canyon Road in Castaic, Industry Hills Expo Center
(35:41):
there on Temple Avenue in the City of Industry. Pomona
Fairplex on McKinley Avenue in Pomona. So if you have
you know, large animals in need of shelter, those are
some ideas for you as well. All right, we have
started the program earlier or we're not doing the main
Fork Report to show as we will step out. There
(36:03):
are some food elements though, and some tie ins of
people that are helping firefighters those that have been displaced
as well that we will be getting into later in
the program. But stick around. Amy King is with me
as we continue live fire coverage for you until five
o'clock here on KFI, So go know where you're
Speaker 4 (36:24):
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